Kesha Vs. Alphaville

I’m reading Tuesdays with Morrie for Death and Dying right now and so far it’s been a pretty easy read. I don’t mean that in its difficulty level but my willingness to keep reading it. Mr. Ingram keeps lecturing about how it has not been out of print since it was published in ’97. I understand that the meaning of life should be timeless but it is dated slightly. I think it only seems dated to teenagers reading it and I don’t think it’s because we’re superficial and think it’s old. It’s because our generation grew up with a different message.  The book and even the nightline on Morrie bring up the idea that the culture likes to not talk about death but our culture now talks about death all the time. Well not all the time but now songs and movies are all about living like it’s your last day and making the moments count.( “if today was your last day and tomorrow was too late”) For over half the summer the motto was you only live once…yolo, the message being were all going to die so live your life.(which was also a song) Look back at the song forever young the lyrics are I wanna be forever young but now kesha is singing live while were young. So instead of wishing we will always be young let’s just live in the moment. I’m not saying that any of those old messages were lost or if this new idea is good or bad it’s just hard to understand what avoiding death is like. In any other part of the book there is no big difference. I mean kesha probably isn’t pushing the same ideals Morrie Schwartz is but our culture now thrives off of yolo and seize the day so when a man goes on television to talk about death it seems fascinating but it’s not really controversial or new anymore.